1989 Masters Tournament Results and Winner
The 1989 Masters was the 53rd edition of this major championship, and the site of Nick Faldo's first Masters win. He won it on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff against Scott Hoch.
Winner: Nick Faldo, 283
Where it was played: Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
Tournament dates: April 6-9, 1989
Leader after first round: Lee Trevino, 67
Leader after second round: Lee Trevino and Nick Faldo, 141
Leader after third round: Ben Crenshaw, 213
What Happened at the 1989 Masters Tournament
Scott Hoch should have won the 1989 Masters. On the first playoff hole against Nick Faldo, Hoch had a 2-foot putt for the win. Somehow, he missed it. That gave Faldo the opening he needed, and on the second playoff hole Faldo won it with a birdie. He was the first golfer from England to win a Masters. It was the first of Faldo's three Masters victories. He repeated as champ in 1990, becoming the first back-to-back winner since Jack Nicklaus in 1965-66. And Faldo won again in the 1996 Masters.Faldo began the final round five strokes off the lead of Ben Crenshaw. Crenshaw shot 71 in the final round, Faldo shot 65 with eight birdies to finish one stroke ahead of Crenshaw. Hoch had a final-round 69 and tied Faldo at 5-under 283.
That final-round 65 by Faldo was the low round of the tournament. And he earned it with birdie putts of challenging lengths down the stretch. He made a 12-foot birdie on the 13th and a short one on the 14th, then a big-breaking 15-footer on the 16th. Finally, Faldo made a 30-foot birdie on the second-to-last hole of regulation. In the playoff, after Hoch missed the short one on the first extra hole, Faldo sank a 25-footer on the second playoff hole to win.
Crenshaw missed the playoff when he made bogey on the final hole. Greg Norman also bogeyed the final hole and missed the playoff by a stroke.
Forty-nine-year-old Lee Trevino was the surprise first-round leader, and shared the Round 2 lead, but carded an 81 in Round 3 to fall off the pace.
1989 Masters Final Scores
| x-Nick Faldo | 68-73-77-65—283 |
| Scott Hoch | 69-74-71-69—283 |
| Ben Crenshaw | 71-72-70-71—284 |
| Greg Norman | 74-75-68-67—284 |
| Seve Ballesteros | 71-72-73-69—285 |
| Mike Reid | 72-71-71-72—286 |
| Jodie Mudd | 73-76-72-66—287 |
| Chip Beck | 74-76-70-68—288 |
| Jose Maria Olazabal | 77-73-70-68—288 |
| Jeff Sluman | 74-72-74-68—288 |
| Fred Couples | 72-76-74-67—289 |
| Ken Green | 74-69-73-73—289 |
| Mark O'Meara | 74-71-72-72—289 |
| Paul Azinger | 75-75-69-71—290 |
| Don Pooley | 70-77-76-67—290 |
| Tom Watson | 72-73-74-71—290 |
| Ian Woosnam | 74-76-71-69—290 |
| David Frost | 76-72-73-70—291 |
| Tom Kite | 72-72-72-75—291 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 73-74-73-71—291 |
| Jumbo Ozaki | 71-75-73-72—291 |
| Curtis Strange | 74-71-74-72—291 |
| Lee Trevino | 67-74-81-69—291 |
| Tom Purtzer | 71-76-73-72—292 |
| Payne Stewart | 73-75-74-70—292 |
| Bernhard Langer | 74-75-71-73—293 |
| Larry Mize | 72-77-69-75—293 |
| Steve Pate | 76-75-74-68—293 |
| Lanny Wadkins | 76-71-73-73—293 |
| Fuzzy Zoeller | 76-74-69-74—293 |
| Mark Calcavecchia | 74-72-74-74—294 |
| Steve Jones | 74-73-80-67—294 |
| Dave Rummells | 74-74-75-71—294 |
| Hubert Green | 74-75-76-71—296 |
| Peter Jacobsen | 74-73-78-71—296 |
| Bruce Lietzke | 74-75-79-68—296 |
| Bob Gilder | 75-74-77-71—297 |
| Tommy Aaron | 76-74-72-76—298 |
| Charles Coody | 76-74-76-72—298 |
| Raymond Floyd | 76-75-73-74—298 |
| Scott Simpson | 72-77-72-77—298 |
| Dan Pohl | 72-74-78-75—299 |
| George Archer | 75-75-75-75—300 |
| Mark McCumber | 72-75-81-72—300 |
| Greg Twiggs | 75-76-79-70—300 |
| Jay Haas | 73-77-79-72—301 |
| Bob Lohr | 75-76-77-73—301 |
| Mike Sullivan | 76-74-73-78—301 |
| D.A. Weibring | 72-79-74-76—301 |
| Corey Pavin | 74-74-78-76—302 |
| Andy Bean | 70-80-77-77—304 |
| T.C. Chen | 71-75-76-84—306 |
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